James Bannon

James Bannon TD

Teachta Dála
Incumbent
Assumed office May 2007
Constituency	Longford–Westmeath
Senator
In office September 2002 – May 2007
Constituency	Industrial and Commercial Panel
Personal details
Born	(1958-03-06) 6 March 1958 County Longford, Ireland
Nationality	Irish
Political party	Fine Gael

James Bannon (born 6 March 1958) is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He is a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Longford–Westmeath constituency.^[1]

A native of Legan, County Longford, he worked as a farmer and auctioneer before entering politics.

He was first elected to Longford County Council at the 1985 local elections for the Ballymahon electoral area, and was successively re-elected to the County Council at the 1991 and 1999 local elections, receiving the largest number of first-preference votes in the electoral area on each occasion.^[2] He has served as Chairperson of Longford County Council, becoming the youngest person ever to do so.

In 2002, he was elected to Seanad Éireann as a Fine Gael candidate by the Industrial and Commercial Panel. He stood down as a member of Longford County Council when legislation was introduced prohibiting serving members of the Oireachtas from being members of local authorities, and was succeeded by his brother, Larry. He was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 2007 general election for Longford–Westmeath.

He served as the party Deputy spokesperson on Environment with special responsibility for Heritage from 2007 to 2010. In October 2010, he was appointed as Deputy spokesperson on Environment with special responsibility for Local and Community Development.

In 2012, he asked Bishop Colm O'Reilly to reconsider selecting an Italian organ maker to rebuild the organ in St Mel's Cathedral in Longford.^[3]

References

↑ "Mr. James Bannon". Oireachtas Members Database. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
↑ "James Bannon". ElectionsIreland.org. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
↑ "Plea for Irish organ for St Mel's Cathedral". RTÉ News. Retrieved 27 February 2012.

External links

James Bannon's page on the Fine Gael website

Oireachtas
Preceded by Paul McGrath (Fine Gael)	Fine Gael Teachta Dála for Longford–Westmeath 2007–present	Incumbent

Current members of Dáil Éireann

As elected to the 31st Dáil in 2011, with changes Ceann Comhairle: Seán Barrett

Fine Gael (66)	Bannon Barry Breen Bruton Butler Buttimer C. Byrne Cannon Carey Coffey A. Collins Connaughton Coonan Corcoran Kennedy Coveney Creed J. Daly Deasy Deenihan Deering R. Doherty Donohoe Doyle Durkan English Farrell Feighan Fitzgerald Fitzpatrick C. Flanagan Griffin Harrington Harris T. Hayes Heydon H. Humphreys Keating Kehoe E. Kenny§ Kyne Lawlor McEntee McFadden McGinley McHugh McLoughlin Mitchell Mitchell O'Connor Mulherin D. Murphy E. Murphy Neville Noonan O'Donnell O'Donovan O'Dowd O'Mahony O'Reilly Perry J. P. Phelan Reilly Ring Shatter Stanton Twomey Varadkar

Labour Party (33)	Burton§ E. Byrne Conaghan Conway Costello Dowds A. Ferris Gilmore Hannigan Howlin K. Humphreys Kelly S. Kenny C. Lynch K. Lynch Lyons McCarthy McNamara Nash Nolan Ó Ríordáin J. O'Sullivan Penrose A. Phelan Quinn Rabbitte Ryan Sherlock Spring Stagg Tuffy Wall White

Fianna Fáil (21)	Aylward Browne Calleary N. Collins Cowen Dooley S. Fleming Keaveney Kelleher Kirk Kitt Martin§ McConalogue Michael McGrath McGuinness Moynihan Ó Cuív O'Dea Ó Fearghaíl Smith Troy

Sinn Féin (14)	Adams§ Colreavy Crowe P. Doherty Ellis M. Ferris McDonald McLellan Mac Lochlainn O'Brien Ó Caoláin Ó Snodaigh Stanley Tóibín

AAA–PBP (4)	Boyd Barrett Coppinger Higgins P. Murphy

Renua Ireland (3)	Creighton§ T. Flanagan Timmins

Social Democrats (3)	Donnelly§ C. Murphy§ Shortall§

WUA (1)	Healy

Independent (19)	Broughan J. Collins Conlan C. Daly Fitzmaurice T. Fleming Grealish Halligan Healy-Rae Lowry F. McGrath Mattie McGrath Mathews Maloney Naughten M. O'Sullivan Pringle Ross Wallace

§Party leaders Italics = Ministers

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Cathaoirleach Rory Kiely (FF) Leader of the Seanad Mary O'Rourke (FF)

Administrative Panel	Timmy Dooley (FF) Frank Feighan (FG) Camillus Glynn (FF) Tony Kett (FF) Joe McHugh (FG) Joanna Tuffy (Lab) Diarmuid Wilson (FF)

Agricultural Panel	Paul Bradford (FG) Paddy Burke (FG) Ulick Burke (FG) Peter Callanan (FF) Rory Kiely (FF) Martin Mansergh (FF) Francis O'Brien (FF) Kathleen O'Meara (Lab) John Paul Phelan (FG) Eamon Scanlon (FF) Jim Walsh (FF)

Cultural and Educational Panel	Noel Coonan (FG) Brian Hayes (FG) Paschal Mooney (FF) Labhrás Ó Murchú (FF) Ann Ormonde (FF)

Industrial and Commercial Panel	James Bannon (FG) Eddie Bohan (FF) Paul Coghlan (FG) Margaret Cox (Ind) Marc MacSharry (FF) Derek McDowell (Lab) Kieran Phelan (FF) Sheila Terry (FG) Mary White (FF)

Labour Panel	Fergal Browne (FG) Maurice Cummins (FG) Brendan Daly (FF) Geraldine Feeney (FF) Michael Finucane (FG) Liam Fitzgerald (FF) John Hanafin (FF) Jim Higgins (FG) Terry Leyden (FF) Don Lydon (FF) Michael McCarthy (Lab)

National University of Ireland	Joe O'Toole (Ind) Feargal Quinn (Ind) Brendan Ryan (Lab)

University of Dublin	Mary Henry (Ind) David Norris (Ind) Shane Ross (Ind)

Nominated by the Taoiseach	Cyprian Brady (FF) Michael Brennan (PD) John Dardis (PD) Maurice Hayes (Ind) Brendan Kenneally (FF) Michael P. Kitt (FF) John Minihan (PD) Tom Morrissey (PD) Pat Moylan (FF) Mary O'Rourke (FF) Kate Walsh (PD)

Nominated later	May 2007 Colm O'Gorman (PD) June 2007 Donie Cassidy (FF) Chris Wall (FF) Seán Dorgan (FF) Peter Sands (FF)

FF: Fianna Fáil FG: Fine Gael Lab: Labour Party PD: Progressive Democrats Ind: Independent

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